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The Baby Thief and the Birth of a New Language

The Baby Thief and the Birth of a New Language

When Mercury Outruns the Sun for a Gemini New Moon

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Melissa A. Rosati
May 27, 2025
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On the day the god Mercury was born, he crawled from his cradle, tiptoed past Apollo’s sunbeams, and stole fifty cows that belonged to his older brother. Apollo, the radiant god of the Sun, was stunned. His one-day-old baby brother had broken the rules, rewritten the map, and talked his way out of punishment by entertaining their father, Zeus, by playin…

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